A few days ago I shared with you our hammering nails in pumpkins activity. As promised, I’ve got an educational twist to the activity to share with you! We used our pumpkins to have fun working on math facts.
Materials Needed to Nail Those Math Facts:
- Pumpkin
- Permanent marker
- Nails
- Hammer (We used a plastic toy hammer.)
Both of my children have been working on memorizing addition and subtraction math facts.
I used a permanent marker to write numbers all over the pumpkin. Then I gave them a math problem to solve, such as 5+3, and they searched for the answer and hammered a nail into the correct number.
If you put enough numbers all over the pumpkin and played long enough, you can have a pretty neat looking pumpkin to display after practicing all those math facts!
Ways to modify the activity:
- You could also use this activity to work on multiplication or division math facts.
- For a younger child you could write the letters of the alphabet on the pumpkin and have them locate the letters.
- Use the permanent marker to write sight words on the pumpkin for your child to identify.
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Be sure to check out our other fun learning activities with pumpkins!
Mudpie Fridays says
Great idea :), I am working on number recognition with Monkey at the moment so I could adapt this to work for him 🙂 thank you #busydoinglife x
OneMommy says
Definitely! I hope you both have as much fun as we did with it!
Corinne says
This is such a simple, but fun idea! I love your ideas for adapting it for different ages. Thanks so much for linking up at Happy Home Life.
Deborah from Mommy Crusader says
This is such a clever and fun way to practice math facts. I bet those pumpkins end up pretty spooky. I love how you combined such a fun activity with something that is so important for students’ success in later Math classes.